"IDL" 2007 Obituary

IDLE o@ca.on.manitoulin.howland.little_current.manitoulin_expositor 2007-01-10 published
Barbara Jean
(NICHOLS)
HILL
In loving memory of Barbara Jean
(NICHOLS)
HILL,
February 23, 1940 - January 2, 2007.
Barbara died suddenly at the residence of her daughter Bonnie
HORE in Gordon Township.
She was the beloved wife of Edward
HILL, predeceased September 6, 2005. She was born in
Thessalon, daughter of the late Gordon and Jean
(WILLETON)
NICHOLS of Thessalon and
Cockburn Island. She married Ed on January 17, 1958 and they lived in Sault Sainte Marie.
She worked a few part time jobs in restaurants, but for the majority of her life,
she was a homemaker. In 1972, she and Ed moved from Sault Sainte Marie to Manitoulin Island.
She worked at the Gore Bay Legion in the late 70s and was a member of the Farmers Market.
In 1981, they moved to Alberta where she and Ed worked at a turkey farm in Lethbridge.
Then a few years later she worked at a nursing home in Taber. They moved back to Manitoulin
in 1984, and she became a member of the Farmer's Market again. In 1997 she had to quit
the Farmer's Market due to health reasons. She enjoyed growing gardens, pickling and
canning foods and raising a few farm animals. She liked to go to Cockburn Island where
she was born and raised and spend time over there with family and Friends that she grew
up with. Knitting, puzzles and playing bingo were her pastimes. She leaves behind her
loving and loved children, Richard and Betty
NICHOLS of Sault Sainte Marie, Bonnie and
Morris HORE of Gordon Township, Wendy and Dan
SCHMIDT of Sault Sainte Marie, Carol and
Danny JAMES of Searchmont, Melody and Murray
HORE of Gordon Township, Allison
COULAM and
friend Merle
IDLE of Gordon Twp. And Ean
HILL and friend Marilyn
SAUVÉ of Mills Township.
Loving grandmother of 20 grandchildren and 13 great grandchildren. She also leaves behind
her sister Ethel
BOWERMAN of Mindemoya and brothers Jim (Ila) and Norman (Mary) both in
Sault Sainte Marie, and many nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by infant sister
Georgina and sisters Daisy, Edith, Eva, Caroline and Alice and brothers Roy, Bill,
Alvin, Lyman and Joey and nephews Ted and Douglas, granddaughter Sharon
NICHOLS and son
in law Arleigh
COULAM.
Friends called at the Culgin Funeral Home, Gore Bay after 7.00 p.m.
On Friday. The funeral service was conducted in the Wm. G. Turner Chapel on Saturday,
January 6, 2007 at 1.00 p.m. with Pastor Erwin
THOMPSON/THOMSON/TOMPSON/TOMSON officiating. Interment in Gordon Cemetery.